"WE LIVE IN DEGENERATE DAYS."
"There is a good opening here," writes the Manchester correspondent of the Shoe anil Leather Trade Record, " for anybody who can offer really sound good stuff at about 25 to 30 per cent, under value, take a four months' bill, and allow 5 per cent, discount. There arc several who will stump up tiie ready cash, and take any amount of the article, for an extra consideration. And this is legitimate trade ; of course it is—very legitimate. It is a way we have in Manchester, and I suppose the 'weakness' is not confined to this interesting city. But, send your traveller about with ordinary value; let him have a bag—or half-a-do/.en boxes of boots if he like—the pi ices of which will show a fair profit for workmen and master, and I'll wager the returns will not be satisfactory. The fact is wc live in degenerate days ; traders arc more or less demoralised, anil walking on the straight line is a feat that nowadays beats Blondin into tits. There are, here and there, a few old-fashioned men who will pay a good price for a good thing, but they seem to bo moving off fast. They can't exist in this wicked world."
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Waikato Times, Volume 2656, Issue 2656, 20 July 1889, Page 2 (Supplement)
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207"WE LIVE IN DEGENERATE DAYS." Waikato Times, Volume 2656, Issue 2656, 20 July 1889, Page 2 (Supplement)
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